Google indexes PermaLinks?

06 October 2005

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It seems that Google is now autodetecting PermaLinks of dynamically-generated pages using the rel="PermaLink" syntax. Here’s one of the results for my blog:

This is probably a really good idea, as it allows their search result links point to correct document even if the target site has been reorganized, combatting linkrot. Of course cool URLs don’t change, but as they’re titles too they can change during reorganizations, creating the need for permanent links.

Permalinks can be displayed on the system using a HTML link element. This way authoring tools can automatically detect the permalink and use that for linking instead of the regular URL. The Link element should include two attributes:

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Decoupled Content Management

Decoupled Content Management is a movement to bring clean separation of concerns into CMSs. With it, Content Management Systems can focus better on their core functionalities, and get the missing pieces through code-sharing and collaboration.

For me, the decoupled CMS story began in the OSCOM era of early 2000s, and culminated in the still-popular Decoupling Content Management article I wrote in 2011. The tools mentioned there — Create.js, VIE, and PHPCR — have since reached quite a nice level of adoption in mainstream CMSs.